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The Door Handle

Jacqueline Abelson -
My father appeared in my doorway on the first Monday of the New Year to inform me that my grandfather had died. I responded...
Armchair Arbiters

The Architecture of Absence

Narjisse Moumna -
  “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”  —Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation.  “The way paranoia has of understanding anything is by imitating and embodying it....
Culture Couch

Zara Larsson Didn’t Steal My Nani’s Jewelry Box

Srijoni Nandi -
Somewhere in the internet's collective imagination lives a place called the Khia Asylum—a metaphorical purgatory named after the rapper only known for one song,...
Restless Cases

The Missing Cat Caper

Craig Inanen -
I’m Max Callahan, P.I. That stands for Private Investigator if you’re not hip to the detective game like me. You might be more familiar...
Fiction and Poetry

Moros and Cassandra

S. N. Ara -
Moros’ corporeal form is an awkward tangle of too-long limbs and too-narrow hips, neither of which ease his drive through the congested streets of...
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Mr and Mrs Moody Return: Intelligence, Artificial and Otherwise

ALMA Staff -
"MONA!" bellowed Maverick Moody, on an otherwise tranquil Tuesday morning. "MONA! The children have sent something. I think it's a bomb." Mrs Moody shuffled in...
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Where’s My Malcolm X?

Govind Dhar -
When Zohran Mamdani, the first brown mayor of New York, was close to the end of his mayoral election campaign in November 2025, he...
Editorial

Call for Submissions: Print Edition

ALMA Staff -
Hello readers, artists, patrons, and dear writers! A limited-run print edition arrives in September. It's low-key, grassroots, and we're counting on you to spread the...
Fiction and Poetry

‘Arena Ukraine’

Lance Mazmanian -
At every side, cannons. And the only escape... A small and muddy swath with lungs of afternoon and flowers of yesterday soaked in earth and red oil. Kettles in either hand each glowing as stars and...
Poetry

“on either side of the river was the tree of life”

L. Acadia -
my favorite historian says “Evangelicals want to keep Israel real for the rapture,” now their plans are falling into place: their bombs are falling into Gaza; their anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism equation is falling...
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